ANIME ‘Kimi no Na wa (2016)’: How to find love through dream?

I have finally watched the Anime ‘Your Name (Kimi no Na Wa, 2016)’!

As a dream researcher, I was so excited, since this romantic anime is inspired by a dream motive of a famous Japanese poem (Tan-ka) composed by Ono no Komachi in the Heian Period (794〜1185)! Tan-ka has a special rule. It is an absolutely short poem; it has only 31-syllable! Therefore, the emotion of the composer is truly condensed in it.

Especially, her poem definitely means that people can meet their sweet heart in the dream..♡ As expected, it touched me so much; thus, I cried ><;. My emotion has been drastically aroused like this……

Definitely, I have to meet this person!
I do not the reason, though.

Definitely, I have to do it to the last!
I do not the reason, though.

So, a famous Japanese poem by Ono no Komachi is stated as below↓↓

思ひつつ寝ればや人の見えつらむ 夢と知りせば覚めざらましを

O-mo-i tsu-tsu nu-re ba-ya hi-to no mi-e tsu-ra-n yu-me to shi-ri se ba sa-me za-ra ma-shi wo

Interpretation)
Is it because I fell asleep
Yearning for her
That he paid me a visit?
Had I known it was dream,
I wouldn’t have woken up.

Is that so! Yes! Is that so! That is a love communication!

Function of Japanese dream:
Spiritual communication tool between lovers!

In the old Japanese poem, the dream has a clear function as a practical communication tool between lovers. Do you think that it is too irrational?

The more the time goes back beyond the mythological era around 8 century, the more people believe in it!

To meet in the dream = To meet for real.

I’m mean it!

If your beloved person come to see you through your dream, it is a proof of the true love. People believe in it!

The more the time goes forward to the recent times, the less people believe this kind of spirituality, since it would be irrational and shady….. This communication is no more than dream…! Then, a feeling of doubt is getting aroused. Once a feeling of doubt was evoked, people tend to have suspicious. What is more, people can doubt their partner’s love…. Since love is totally irrational. Then, they may even drift toward a destructive relationship…..

In Japan, since early times, a dream has a clear function as a communication tool with beloved one. In fact, there is no country and region like Japan in the world. Especially, in ancient times, this concept was regarded as common sense: thus, most of composers of Japanese poems understand this function of a dream. Dream has been awesome in Japan since ancient times! It contains very religious aspect.

It should be mentioned that a heroin’s family is an ancient line of a Shinto (Japanese religion) priest. Her family owns a shrine, and this shrine lasts about 1300 years. Very interestingly, two Japanese mythologies of Shintoism were officially composed about 1300 years ago by an emperor family…

In these two Japanese mythologies, there are 18 dream episodes.
Surprisingly, all of them have a same function! It is ’Revelation of God’!!!

Kimi no Na wa: Shintoism

Function of Japanese dream:
Revelation of God!

For what?

The dream is absolutely irrational! Many people are really forgetful of their own dreams, since it is quite hazy. If the dream is so important, it should be clear to understand!

TOTORO: Shintoism

I was a scientist. It means that I had to work on the basis of the convincing evidence from the objective perspective. Off course, it is quite significant in our life. However, because people have been doing too much in the rational way in this globalised world, it is getting difficult to catch a voice of our intuition. Therefore, people eager to invite this kind of spirituality. The strong message through dream just stimurates our instincts.

Live on!
Survive!

It is a clear message inherited by all ancestors from generation to generation in the link chain of our blood to pass the button for the next generation. This message can sometimes appear in our dream.. Especially, at the time of falling love.

Love this person!
Because the person is your destiny…

It is totally irrational to fall in love for the first time. It does not make any sense to anybody. It just comes out from the bottom of gut viscerally.

The person who I must see.
The belief who I must live according to.

However, in ordinary circumstances, we can be thundered out this kind of behaviour: ‘Fool’! It may be regarded as non-productive….

This anime emphasised to be with a pure ad spiritual intuition. But, I want to say that Japanese women have to pay attention! Their souls easily remove their body and fly away. Get out where? Once it happens, these souls tend to be easily possessed.

What happens in real life? In this case, people can be easily swayed by the opinions of others. It doesn’t mean that you should have too much strong will. If you think in a too much rational term, you will become a too much independent person. It means that you can do it all by yourself, as a result you may be getting isolated.

Balance between rational and irrational is significant..

Interaction between two floating souls is so beautiful. A mutual communication between men and women is point of our life…♡ This kind of weaving between masculinity and femininity is profound. This is true mythical conjunction.. We are confronted this mythical conjunction by this anime!

awwwww…. ^^

In the Japanese spirituality, it is said that deities live inside each person.
If we can hear this quiet voice hidden beyond the bottom of our heart,
a relationship can automatically connect. That’s all it needs! Then, the relationship can automatically be interconnected.

All in all…this is it!

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